SPIRE Context and Guidance for Project Kick-Off Meetings Sustainable Process Industries through Resource & Energy Efficiency SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects Overview What is the SPIRE PPP? (inc membership) The SPIRE Roadmap to Impact Measuring, Managing and Monitoring Impact The Family of SPIRE Projects A.SPIRE Communication Resources The SPIRE Website Guidance for SPIRE Projects Project Output Summaries SPIRE Network Groups Integrating Sustainability into SPIRE Projects Exploitation Planning Upcoming SPIRE Events SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

SPIRE Public Private Partnership SPIRE is a contractual Public-Private Partnership between European Commission & A.SPIRE supporting Research & Innovation for EU Process Industries: There are over 150 organisation members of A.SPIRE (representing industry, research, and industry associations). Although all SPIRE calls are open to all under H2020 rules, members of A.SPIRE have additional opportunities to discuss priorities, propose call topics and benefit from dedicated networking and brokerage opportunities. For further information on the membership and governance, see www.spire2030.eu SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects The SPIRE Roadmap 2030 The SPIRE Roadmap 2030 describes paths and actions to achieve Sustainable Process Industries through: (Re)invent feedstock (waste, bio, CO2) Reduce emissions; (re)invent energy & resource management concepts, incl. industrial symbiosis Introduce digital technologies for better monitoring and control (Re)invent materials for optimised processes (Re)invent processes & materials with a significantly increased impact on resource & energy efficiency down the value chain: transport, housing Reduce waste & (re)invent technologies for valorisation of waste streams within and across sectors SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects SPIRE Goals SPIRE aims at integrating, demonstrating and validating systems and technologies capable of achieving three key resource and energy efficiency targets across all SPIRE sectors by 2030: a reduction in fossil energy intensity of up to 30% a reduction of up to 20% in non-renewable, primary raw material intensity efficiency improvement in CO2-equivalent of up to 40% How will your project impact upon these goals? SPIRE have also proposed a 2050 vision for Horizon Europe, which includes much more ambitious CO2 and near-zero landfill targets: https://www.spire2030.eu/news/new/spire-2050-vision SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

SPIRE Roadmap 2050 in the context of Horizon Europe SPIRE’s vision on how to achieve transformation in Process Industry by 2050 SPIRE is transitioning into the Carbon Neutral and Circular Industry (title to be confirmed) Partnership as one of the co-programming partnerships in HEU   SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Measuring, Managing and Monitoring Impact Every year around April/May, ASPIRE collates information from projects on their likely results and expected impact. The SPIRE PPP has KPIs from the European Commission to demonstrate effectiveness of the programme, some of which are specific to the projects and are gathered via this questionnaire: KPI I. Scale of reduction in energy, material resources and waste KPI II. Project results taken-up for further investments (into higher TRLs) KPI III. Trainings for a higher quality workforce KPI IV. Patents and activities leading to standardisation The survey is divided in five parts. Each part can be filled in by the coordinator or by a project partner considering the specific input required: PART A: Project Fundamentals PART B: Innovation outcomes - Business impact PART C: Environmental impact PART D: Socio-economic impact PART E: Success Stories Plan to gather and update relevant data as part of your routine project management activities. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

The Family of SPIRE Projects Over 100 projects have been funded in the SPIRE programme so far. It is likely that several previous projects will have done work on the topic that you working on and there may be other projects funded under the same call. Make sure that you are adding to, or building on, the past research and look for ways to collaborate with projects that are working on related topics. All SPIRE projects can be found in this online portfolio: https://www.spire2030.eu/projects/our-spire-projects SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Hosting Project Websites Projects can host their website on the SPIRE website for free, ensuring greater visibility of projects across the SPIRE community and long-term availability of outputs. Projects can also choose to host websites independently, with just a link from the SPIRE site. However, you should plan for what will happen to the information once the project has completed. www.spire2030.eu/yourproject SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

A.SPIRE Communication Resources For projects in the SPIRE programme, there is a ready-made audience of SPIRE members and stakeholders who have an interest in the outputs of SPIRE projects. A.SPIRE can help publicise your project through newsletters, events, brochures and social media channels (e.g. @spire2030) and provide resources to help show your project as being a part of the broader SPIRE programme. Digital SPIRE label SPIRE projects portfolio SPIRE Newsletter Publications & stands available SPIRE Roadmap SPIRE Brochure (A4) SPIRE Projects’ Portfolio (A5) Roll-up Pop-up stand Business cards Folders SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

The SPIRE Website – www.spire2030.eu Host your project’s website, or have a link to an external site Access guidance on the SPIRE programme and ways to enhance the impact of your SPIRE project (www.spire2030.eu/projects/guidance) Access News and Events information Post, browse and search through SPIRE Project Output Summaries… SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: Project Output Summaries New for 2019: SPIRE, in collaboration with the SPRING project, have launched a new section on the website to enable users to search and browse outputs from projects across the SPIRE portfolio more easily (e.g. educational resources, images, reports, videos, case studies, technology summaries): www.spire2030.eu/projects/outputs Projects can choose to make ‘Output Summaries’ for single or groups of outputs. Outputs can be tagged for sectors of relevance, keywords etc. An introductory video to Project Output Summaries and step-by-step guidance on how to produce them can be found here: Output Summary Guidance Note: from September 2019, a pilot has begun on a broader ‘Horizons Results Platform’, covering key results from projects across H2020, in preparation for Horizon EU. Feedback and information disseminated through the SPIRE Project Outputs framework are expected to further help the development of this system. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: Integrating Sustainability Define a benchmark and communicate clearly the baseline against which the results have been assessed. Consider different aspects and dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic and social). Inclusion of positive aspects and benefits within the assessments is encouraged. Apply life cycle based assessment methods and cover both upstream and downstream processes, where relevant to your system boundaries. Refer to accepted and well-known methods and indicators, and apply standardized methods and indicators and vocabulary, when available. Address uncertainty related to the applied methods, modelling choices and data, taking into account the TRL of the assessed technology. Report transparently applied methods, functional unit, system boundaries, data sources, assumptions and limitations of the study. Guidance from SPIRE projects: SAMT, STYLE and MEASURE: www.spire2030.eu/samt www.spire2030.eu/style www.spire2030.eu/measure SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: Integrating Sustainability Set Scope – Benchmark, Boundary, Functional Unit Worth discussing at the kick-off meeting. It is unlikely that everyone attending will have been involved in writing the project proposal Start Simple – Qualitatively “what are you aiming for your project to achieve?” How will you get the evidence to prove this? - Quantitative Data Plan Visualise results against benchmark Review at Project Meetings SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Consistency in metrics’ calculations Extract from MEASURE Roadmap: www.spire2030.eu/measure SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Example template for tracking sustainability evidence What are the key expected sustainability impacts of …? Baseline: e.g. 1000 te/yr [manufacturing plant of …], using fossil fuel energy, conventional solvents, conventional heat exchangers etc., sited in Southern Spain, Cradle to Gate assessment (producing identical product; improving the process) Indicator Baseline Expected Impact Global Warming Potential (mainly CO2 emission reduction)* Currently ~2 te CO2 equivalent per tonne of product Unsure of impact; data to be evaluated in yr3 of project Fossil energy intensity* Cumulative energy demand currently … MJ per tonne of product May require higher energy usage; data to be evaluated in yr3 of project Total material consumption* No critical materials used currently. 250kg of fossil materials per kg of product Expect 20% reduction in non-renewable raw material usage. Current evaluation shows 10-30% likely reduction. Economic added value e.g. Annual Operating Cost of [manufacturing plant] €2 million per year Expect 5% reduction in OpEx e.g. Toxicity of Process Chemicals High tox process solvents in common use Eliminate use of ‘non-green’ solvents *core SPIRE metrics SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: Exploitation Planning Information on Exploitable Results is required at regular intervals throughout your project (not just near the end!). Good practice is to keep a database of results and other outputs for easy reference. The SPRING project have developed an Exploitable Results example template [download here], which can be used to keep record of information required for: EC Innovation Radar SPIRE Annual Project Questionnaire SPIRE Project Output Summaries EC H2020 Results Platform* Suggested content for project exploitation plan *New system being piloted from September 2019. Expected to take content from Innovation Radar, but may be broadened to include other resources, as per Project Output Summaries SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: SPIRE Network Groups SPIRE Coordinators Network Group: Enabling better collaboration between SPIRE projects, e.g. for shared workshops and communications: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8525162/ SPIRE Sustainability Practitioners Network Group: for sharing best-practice, ideas, issues etc: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12143240/ Flexible format for conversations/ posts Avoids requiring members to visit additional sites Longevity and helps spread SPIRE messages beyond the PPP Knowledge Platform available for confidential SPIRE member discussions Home for guidance generated, events calendars etc. SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

Guidance: Other resources See SPIRE website guidance section for more information on topics such as: Exploitation management (including example Exploitation Template) Barriers to industrial exploitation Generating education and training resources Decision-making for investment Standardisation (from HARMONI project) Business models (from INSPIRE project) … SPIRE Context and Guidance for New Projects

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For more information on how A For more information on how A.SPIRE can help your project, speak to the team, or see: www.spire2030.eu This guidance was developed in collaboration with the SPRING PROJECT – setting the framework for the enhanced impact of SPIRE projects This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No 767412